Ben Rothke
Ben Rothke, CISSP, was moste recently Director of Security Technology Implementation for AXA Technology Services, a division of AXA, the world’s largest financial services company. Mr. Rothke has over 15 years of industry experience in the area of information systems security and privacy, and his areas of expertise are in risk management and mitigation, PKI, security and privacy regulation, design & implementation of systems security, encryption and security policy development. Prior to joining AXA, Mr. Rothke was with ThruPoint, Baltimore Technologies, Ernst & Young, and Citicorp, and has provided security solutions to many Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Rothke is the author of Computer Security - 20 Things Every Employee Should Know (McGraw-Hill 2006), and a contributing author to Network Security: The Complete Reference (Osborne) and The Handbook of Information Security Management (Auerbach). He writes a monthly security book review for Security Management and is a former columnist for Information Security, Unix Review and Solutions Integrator magazines. He is a co-chairman (along with Warren Axelrod of Pershing) of the Information Security Policy Principles Working Group for the GAISP Project and on the Experts Panel for Information Shield and an editorial board member for Information Systems Security. Mr. Rothke is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) & Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and a member of ISSA, ISACA, ASIS, CSI and InfraGard.